Coverage App : Compare 4G and LTE Coverage Maps on the iPad and iPhone

Coverage is a superb, single-purpose app for the iPad and iPhone. Its single purpose, as the name implies, is to compare carrier coverage in the USA. It shows you 4G and LTE coverage and more for each of the four major US carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile).

Here's a little more background, via the App Store page for it:

The only app that directly overlays and compares carrier coverage maps! Perfect for travelers – research where you’re covered across the USA!

Coverage provides an at-a-glance, “universal” cellular data coverage map by interactively overlaying maps from major US cellular providers.
It focuses on helping mobile bandwidth junkies know where carriers claim they might get their next hit.
** Know before you go: Coverage has standardized each major carrier’s data map so they can be easily overlayed, creating a personalized coverage map of major carriers you travel with.
** No internet needed: Our proprietary coverage maps are stored locally; check where coverage is most likely even when you have none. (The underlaying maps require internet/caching.)
** Urban and rural areas: Maps cover the entire continental USA, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands at a regional level.
** Carriers included at higher-res: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon & lower res: T-Mobile.
** Know where to roam: view LTE, ’4G’ (HSPA+ & WiMax), 3G, 2G and roaming areas as inclusive overlays, focus on finding the coverage type you need. (Hint: If your device indicates ’4G’ – it may be HSPA+/WiMax not just LTE. For AT&T and Sprint customers, use the “4G” setting to see both.)

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Free Browseye Toolbar Makes Finding Your Way Around The Net A Breeze

Here is something for anyone who loves to surf the net and yet at the same hates having to hunt around for the right information, image or video. Browseye is completely free and it uses your current interests to highlight what the user is interested in. It is a fast an easy way to get to the stuff that you want without having to go all around the web to do so.

This how Browseye can enhance your surfing experience;

The Web is a rich and complex place. Modern Web Search Engines put tons of pages at the tip of your fingers. With them, you can virtually find any information you want, but you can also lose considerable amounts of time in the process. At Browseye, we believe your time is precious, so we have made it our primary goal to save it.

Another great thing about Browseye is that it is completely free to use, simply download and enjoy.

Source [Browseye]

The Biggest Failures In The Land

The Biggest Failures In The Land

Selection of the most massive holes in the earth's crust, many of which have appeared due to the action of water.

Must Have Apps to Turn You into a Professional Chef

I love watching cooking shows like Master Chef and Top Chef, but it seems that every time that I step into the kitchen to try my own hand at cooking, a pot starts to boil over or the smoke alarm goes off.

I may love food, but I am no natural born cook. I suffer from disaster after disaster when I cook on my own, but with a decent set of instructions and the aid of my handy electronics, I can occasionally churn out an edible meal. If you're like me, and need some serious assistance to whip up tasty meals, take a look at these iPad apps that will turn even the most hopeless cook into a professional chef – if only for one meal.

Pepper Plate (Free) – Half of the battle when cooking is to make sure that you have all of the ingredients and tools that you need for the perfect meal. That coq au vin won't turn out well without the right type of wine, and chicken cordon bleu with the wrong cheese would be a disaster. With Pepper Plate, you can manage recipes, menus and shopping lists so that you've always got every ingredient you need right at your finger tips. With this app you can put together one meal or twenty meals, and prepare food for yourself or for an entire dinner party. Pepper Plate does it all.

Paprika Recipe Manager ($4.99) – Do you have a collection of recipes that you would like to try some day? If you want to keep track of delicious recipes that you've gathered from books, friends, and the web, Paprika is the way to do it. Organization is the key to being a great cook, so keep your recipes in order with this app that supports more than 190 different recipe sites. You can scale recipes for desired serving sizes, create detailed grocery lists, and plan out meals all within this fantastic recipe saving app.

Appetites ($2.99) – I'm a dunce when it comes to the kitchen. I don't know how to knead dough properly or whip milk into cream, so an app like Appetites, which has step-by-step video instructions, is the perfect solution. Appetites comes equipped with more than 30 step-by-step video recipes for a variety of tricky dishes, but because you have a video guide, your entrees turn out perfectly every single time. Complex techniques are broken down into bite sized videos, turning you into a master chef before you know it.

Timer+ (Free) – Timing is important, whether you're cooking a steak or a souffl . Timer+ is a simple, easy to use countdown timer that can run multiple timers from a list of presets. You can set timers down to the second, pause and resume. You can set up a timer for each thing that you're cooking, so everything you whip up will come out absolutely perfect. This app is even able to run in the background so you can do other things while you wait for the timer to count down.

Apple Iphone 3g Digitizer Touch Screen Replacement LCD with Video Instructions + 7 Piece Tool Kit

• Replacement Front Face Glass and Digitizer for iPhone 3G Touch Screen
• Solid construction, High-sensitivity touchscreen. Supplied with a full set of tools.onstruction, High-sensitivity touchscreen. Supplied with a full set of tools.
• Replace your broken / damaged / cracked / shattered outside lens glass cover
• If you have a cracked / broken glass but your LCD still displays normally, and your touch screen function may or may not be working properly, this is the correct replacement part
• Save a huge amount of money doing the repair yourself. 6 piece tool kit for easy and convenient operation.

Apple Iphone 3g Digitizer Touch Screen Replacement LCD with Video Instructions + 7 Piece Tool Kit

Apple patent reveals new laminate notebook with hidden display in lid

“Yesterday we reported on Apple commissioning the production of a mysterious fiber carbon product,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “We were the only source to point out that Apple was also working on ‘glass’ and/or ‘carbon’ fibers for products ranging from the iPhone to a notebook.”

“Today, Apple revealed information about a new notebook product entry that will have a laminate cover that would conceal a hidden camera and mini display on the backside of said notebook,” Purcher reports. “The display won’t be visible until it lights up when the user’s hand hovers over it. It’s simple a fascinating idea – more so because it could lead to an all-new product from Apple.”

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Arline M." for the heads up.]

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Apple Maps and the danger of overestimating your company’s strengths

“As everyone now knows, iOS 6's developers replaced Google's Maps application with Apple's proprietary mapping utility, developed through company acquisitions and with help from TomTom,” Liz Larsen reports for Fast Company. “Initial reviews noted the lack of integrated transit directions (a default in Google's Maps), location inaccuracies, missing landmark information, and imperfect (even melted!) 3-D views.”

“While the critical backlash hasn't dented sales of the fifth-generation iPhone, we can apply this misstep to a larger enterprise issue: How should companies evaluate which functions are better outsourced and which should be maintained in-house? These often mission-critical decisions–when made out of haste or hubris–can be enough to put brand reputation and loyalty at stake,” Larsen reports. “When it came time to execute on the strategy of bringing a previously open-sourced application in-house, it would appear that Apple's product development team had neither the time nor skill set to be successful, thus propelling the brand into an unwanted spotlight.”

Larsen reports, “Choosing to bring a new capability in-house is an exercise in honesty and objectivity, in terms of evaluating your own corporate identity and value proposition. And it is a decision that is best executed by taking personal pride (and even impatience) out of the formula. While some strategic moves may seem like a quick way to win a battle, presenting the best offering will ultimately win the war.”

Much more in the full article here.

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Tim Cook open letter: We fell short with new Maps app; we are extremely sorry – September 28, 2012